Half a billion travelers show China’s economy moving past Covid

  Hotel prices shot up, ride-hailing apps crashed, tickets to the Great Wall sold out: after more than nine long, housebound months, almost half a billion Chinese people are taking a

Briefs | FSS reminds employers to pay contribution fees

  The Social Security Fund (FSS) is calling on employers to pay obligatory system contributions for their local long-term employees for the third quarter of 2020. If a non-resident worker is hired,

Quad meeting | US, Australia, India, Japan discuss China’s growing power

Japan’s new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said yesterday at a meeting with the U.S. and other diplomats that their “Free and Open Indo-Pacific” initiative, a concept to counter China’s growing

Hong Kong | Carrie Lam defends punishing teachers for pushing politics

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam defended disciplining teachers for promoting anti-China views, after the Asian financial center for the first time revoked an educator’s registration over the content of their

This day in history | 1977 Invasion of Swedish identical twins

Ninety sets of Swedish identical twins have travelled to Felixstowe for a brief shopping trip. The twins are taking part in studies by researchers from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. The scientists

USA | White House staff, Secret Service eye virus with fear, anger

The West Wing is a ghost town. Staff members are scared of exposure. And the White House is now a treatment ward for not one — but two — COVID

EU ready to call Johnson bluff, betting he won’t quit talks

The European Union has no plans to offer concessions to Boris Johnson before next week’s Brexit deadline, betting that the U.K. prime minister won’t make good on threats to walk

Melco SME Academy holds series of training sessions

Supported by Melco Resorts & Entertainment’s inhouse Learning Academy, the Melco SME Academy is dedicated to enhancing small and medium enterprise (SME) prosperity and helping local businesses succeed. Over the past two months, close

Sands China’s RG ambassadors complete refresher training

A group of approximately 60 of Sands China’s Responsible Gaming Ambassadors completed a refresher training at Conrad Macao, Cotai Central, part of the company’s continued efforts to strengthen team members’ responsible gaming knowledge

The Buzz | Amid rising infections, Israeli ultra-Orthodox defy lockdown

After a revered ultra-Orthodox rabbi died this week from COVID-19, Israeli police thought they had worked out an arrangement with his followers to allow a small, dignified funeral that would

Covid-19 | White House nixes updated FDA guidelines on vaccine approval

The White House has blocked new Food and Drug Administration guidelines on bringing potential vaccines for COVID-19 to market that would almost certainly have prevented their introduction before the Nov.

World Views | The expat model is broken

Something big is missing from Singapore’s picturesque and impeccably maintained highway linking downtown with Changi Airport: traffic. The collapse in international travel has hit the city-state especially hard. Borders are shut

Wednesday, October 7, 2020 – edition no. 3633

  * Long March to recovery begins * Suspect detained in HKD800,000 counterfeit money scam * Worker’s group tenders petition to the Chief Executive against the cancellation of cash handouts * Judiciary Police to

Trump, still infectious, back at White House — without mask

President Donald Trump staged a dramatic return to the White House Monday night (today, Macau time) after leaving the military hospital where he was receiving an unprecedented level of care

Gov’t admits GP racer numbers may be low

This year’s Macau Grand Prix may see far lower numbers of racers compared with the organizer’s previous estimates, the Sports Bureau (ID) admitted yesterday. Represented by Vice Director Christine Lam at

Briefs | SMG recognized globally as 100-year facility

  The meteorological station of the Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) in Taipa Grande was recognized as a Centennial Observing Station by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) at its 72nd Session

Visitor arrivals muted over first half of Golden WeekVisitor arrivals muted over first half of Golden Week

Visitor arrivals were muted over the first four days of October, to the disappointment of casinos, retailers and restauranteurs who had been hopeful for a surge over the national holiday. The

Caritas’ travel agency underway

Non-governmental organization Caritas Macau has submitted an application to the government to open a travel agency catering towards senior citizens who are incapable of participating in travel tours in the

Local art project may need extra gov’t subsidies to survive

Fortes Pakeong Sequira, director of operation of the “Art Gate” project, located on Rua dos Ervanarios on the Peninsula’s Central District, has hinted that it may require extra money from

Report claims city’s hotel booking exceeds 2019’s Golden Week

Qunar, one of mainland China’s major online travel agencies, has reportedly revealed that bookings for Macau hotels for the first day of this National Day Holiday have exceeded those of

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